Imagine your job was to clean a giant office building. You go from floor to floor, opening doors, collecting trash, getting a vacuum out of the cleaning closet and putting it back. It’s a normal job and part of that … Read more
When the hiring manager messages you to invite you to a video call, you’re thrilled—this must be the offer, you think, or at least a step closer to one. You clear your afternoon, make yourself and your space look presentable, … Read more
Above: Many small business figured out the hard way why coupon sites generate worse users Incentive programs often don’t perform The people you attract with referral programs, free trials, coupons, and gamification — folks who are “incentivized” as a broad … Read more
The great thing about measuring developer productivity is that you can quickly identify the bad programmers. I want to tell you about the worst programmer I know, and why I fought to keep him in the team. A few years … Read more
It’s crazy, but the ramifications of all this are crazier still. If you think about what it means to have only one possible trace that is connected to the kernel logger, you realize quickly that there are security issues at … Read more
26 January 2023 | 9 Comments Today’s post is a little more personal than professional (in fact, this started off as a post for my personal blog), but there’s still plenty of overlap into entrepreneurship and crowdfunding. I turned 42 … Read more
17 January 2023 In light of the coronavirus pandemic, the Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI) is publishing frequent UK mortality analysis through its mortality monitor. Today’s updates cover week 1 of 2023 (to 6 January), based on provisional England & Wales … Read more
Ask medieval historian Michael McCormick what year was the worst to be alive, and he’s got an answer: “536.” Not 1349, when the Black Death wiped out half of Europe. Not 1918, when the flu killed 50 million to 100 … Read more
Right away, a confession. At the beginning of my career, I asked potential employees almost all of the questions below. Well, except for number one of this list. Gaining experience and becoming wiser, I, fortunately, have learned that these are … Read more
As I stood next to the deathbed I could hear a whisper full of desperate urgency: “I have to confess something to you! I am not your sister! I am your mother!!” to which I just nodded and said, “Of … Read more